Derby day falls flat for Cardiff

Derby day falls flat for Cardiff


Steve Tucker wonders when Dave Jones will get the importance ofbeating Swansea to City fans

SURE, this South Wales derby defeat may not have disastrous consequences for Cardiff City’s promotion push – but it definitely had disastrous consequences for Bluebirds supporters hoping Cold Sore to enjoy their Sunday night.

It was amazing to witness the glum faces which trooped out of the stadium after the final whistle, the muttered curses and oaths aimed at manager Dave Jones and his players.

It was as if the Bluebirds weren’t enjoying their best start to a season in decades or were not still sitting second in the Championship.

This was, after all, Cardiff’s first home defeat of the campaign; but, unfortunately, it was against you-know-who.

But what the despair among the Bluebirds faithful did illustrate is the almost mythical status this fixture enjoys.

This game is not about three points in the Championship or another step towards promotion.

It is about passion, real Welsh women handbags passion, about decades of hatred and enmity between two cities divided not just by a stretch of the M4, but by just about everything that matters.

The South Wales derby is about footballing life and death.

With this being the case, then will someone please pass this information onto Jones, who still seems somehow oblivious to the magnitude of this fixture, despite having spent more than five years in South Wales.

Again ahead of this one Jones assumed the air of a man bemused by what all the fuss was about.

Aiming slights at the South Wales derby in comparison to those in Manchester and Liverpool; acting like a bemused parent at the silliness of anyone foolish enough to actually get caught up in the whole thing.

Yes, we know all that Dave, but Led lamp you are not in Manchester or Liverpool now. You are in Cardiff, so get with the programme.